Profile Category: Artist

Whitson has refined a technique reminiscent of pointillism stemming from the Impressionists of the 19thCentury, where layered paint and therefore different colours are applied using dots to create abstract landscape imagery with figurative and narrative dimensions. The choice of palette and pointillist gestures extend on the typically calming pointillism landscapes of the Impressionists and invite the viewer to imagine and see what lies below the surface of dominant Australian mythic landscapes.

“My paintings are arrived at through a distillation process of a series of overlaid marks and shapes. In the 1990s I was more interested in a depiction of the landscape surrounds, whilst now the paintings are more non-representational (abstract) although the basic inspiration remains the central desert landscape, where I live.”

“My work is an intuitive response to nature and the built environment. I live outside the city, in the Wurundjeri/Yarra Valley area. I attempt to activate the feeling of being in the landscape, deconstructing and anthropomorphising the landscape and challenging the human-centred viewpoint of nature. Through layering and linework, my aim is to create a form of ‘spatial’ harmony: a place of refuge, as nature does. My work responds to the brilliant glare of the Australian light. I use the irregularities and patterns of a world where nature is the major stakeholder.”

“I am interested in the moment where structure begins to dissolve and painting becomes an experience of perception rather than description.”

Peter Gardiner has an innate connection with forests. "I paint pictures of forests mostly. I like the mysterious stage of the deep woods. Sometimes I burn it; fire is a character that looms large in the Australian experience. No point in ignoring it.."

Sisson’s style reflects her genuine love of the natural world and possess a playful sense of inquiry, exploration and joyfulness.

Over the last 12 years Julie Andrews has explored the psychological terrain of landscape painting, as an in-between space, ambiguous, sublime and mysterious.

An abstract & figurative expressionist artist , Veronica O Hehir's paintings are executed with an immediate & untethered energy.

Ian Parry is a Tasmanian artist born into a seafaring family. The maritime world, ocean and water permeate his work.